Source: Success! (1977), p. 3
Context: • It's O. K. to be ambitious.
• It's O. K. to look out for Number One. …
• It's O. K. to be a winner.
• And it's always O. K. to be rich.
A word of caution: people will tell you that success can't buy you happiness. This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
“I'm so ugly, but that's O.K. 'cause so are you.”
“The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
On being dispassionate and patient in investments, in an interview in Forbes magazine (1 November 1974); he is contrasting soft-drinks to intoxicating beverages in this example; Buffett eventually became a major investor in Coca-Cola.
“The rich are always enamored of the ancient.”
Source: Nova (1968), Chapter 6 (p. 169)
“Rich people always smell good.”
"Lets Play Tuesdays - Let's Build in Minecraft - Ghast Man Standing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lrI6PvmoBQ. youtube.com. August 20, 2013. Retrieved January 3, 2016.
“A learned man always has riches within himself.”
Homo doctus in se semper divitias habet.
Book VI, fable 22, line 1
Fables
Yo no estimo tesoros ni riquezas;
y así, siempre me causa más contento
poner riquezas en mi pensamiento
que no mi pensamiento en las riquezas.
Sonnet 146, as translated by Edith Grossman in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works (2014)
Alternate translation: I do not value treasures or riches; it always gives me more pleasure to put wealth in my thought than thought in my wealth.
